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Dad 304

Dad 304

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Next week, Mod Pips will be giving you an update on some of the wider aspects of Old School RuneScape, including our plans for protecting game integrity and tackling bots.


Have to Agree. Amazing news. Looking forward to what Mod Pips has in store :)

15-Mar-2013 13:22:45 - Last edited on 15-Mar-2013 13:23:32 by Dad 304

Tenaka

Tenaka

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Hi, I hope you get a chance to reply to this, I just have a simple question regarding the F2P Pking worlds.

A lot of players who voted no are under the assumption that the development team can not handle the work load of another two worlds and this would bring down their production to other players who do not PK is this true? I would not think that you guys would post the Poll if you felt it would stretch you to thin, but I would like to hear it directly from a Mod so I know for sure if you feel these servers would force you to neglect other servers?

I appreciate the response, or at least read in advance :)

15-Mar-2013 13:25:25

Ovos Mexidos

Ovos Mexidos

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F2p styled worlds shouldnt even be part of the poll, since f2p worlds exists since RS launch.

There is not a single reason of why they should not be implemented. I did not saw even one thread explaining WHY you should vote against these worlds, people are voting no because they misundertood the wording, or jus* to spite F2p pkers/clanners.

If you guys don't want f2p styled worlds give a good reason why.

15-Mar-2013 13:27:02

Mod Ash

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A lot of players who voted no are under the assumption that the development team can not handle the work load of another two worlds and this would bring down their production to other players who do not PK is this true?


There are about sixty RS2007 worlds online, spread across various hosting sites. That doesn't take 60x more work than supporting one RS2007 server; they're all running the same code. It might increase the maintenance workload of our systems administrators a smidgen to have "another two", as you suggest, but that's really not something any of us are going to notice. They're not part of the dedicated RS2007 team, they just administrate all the systems of Jagex whatever they may be.

What we're offering is to bring up some worlds in F2P mode for you to play on. This would entail:
- Reprogram their login system so that only subscribers such as yourselves can log into them.
- Reprogram the world-picker so that you only get sent there if you choose to.

We weren't offering to turn them into pk-anywhere worlds, like the PVP worlds that tried to replace Wilderness pking after 2008. They'd just be like what you get if you log into a F2P world in EoCscape, except without the non-members.

The work I've outlined would be done by the game engine guy, and he reckons it's pretty easy for him.

Frankly, if you want those F2P worlds, you should ask for them. If we don't think we can do a job in a reasonable timeframe, or without scuppering the next few weeks of updates, we'll try not to put it on a poll in the first place!

15-Mar-2013 14:03:46 - Last edited on 15-Mar-2013 14:05:43 by Mod Ash

Empyrea
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Empyrea

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Like what Philphish said about the hotkeys - are there any plans to change them? Even for someone like myself with big hands the hotkeys are very far apart and it's quite irksome to use. I'd like them re-mapped to the way they are in EoC (They were this way prior to EoC, too), I.e., F1 being inventory, F2 being worn equipment, F3 being prayer, F4 being mage book, F5 being special attack/attack styles. At the moment, esc is inventory, F1 is special attack/attack styles, F4 is worn equipment, F5 is prayer, and F6 is mage book. It's really spread out and clunky. Does Jagex have any plans to change this or put this to poll?

Also, I had a query about the whole poll thing. There's one more thing from EoC that I would like to see in 2007 - the ability to right-click barricades to use a tinderbox on them (along with some kind of toolbelt function so that people no longer fight over the two tinder spawns in the game). But my fear is that if this were put to vote, along with other small things that not every player cares about, it would be neglected and people who don't play castle wars wouldn't know whether to vote yes or no and might vote against it without being fully-informed.

On EoC, I was a dedicated cw player. I've played well over 6k cw games, and to be honest with you that cw thread that was made was a joke. I don't mean to be rude, but 4/5ths of the people in that thread were morons with max total complaining about the 5k req. Half of the remaining were people with like 500 games who don't know anything about the subtleties of castle wars. I'd love to talk specifics about it if you'd like, but I feel like I'm getting away from my main point.

Main point: Right-click tinderbox for Castle Wars, and rearrangement of the hotkeys. Plausible?

15-Mar-2013 14:20:33 - Last edited on 15-Mar-2013 14:25:58 by Empyrea

Miriel
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Miriel

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Are you aware of the severe input lag which is being reported by many players since the last update (can be reproduced by holding down a key on your keyboard, say CTRL, for a short period of time and clicking anywhere ingame)? Do you have any plans to address this soon?

15-Mar-2013 14:26:13

PartTimeZomB
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PartTimeZomB

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all im going to say is, thanks.

the amount of communication going on is insanely amazing. weekly updates, constantly reading and replying in the forums. its great. and honestly every company should be like this with its customers. just as in any relationship, communication is key.
:)

15-Mar-2013 14:44:07

B0ss

B0ss

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I don't understand why we must vote for f2p item pking when Mod Mark had already basically agreed to them. This made me and many others believe that they would be available when the servers became live. :@

This is a question and answer answered by Mod Mark from the Old School Runescape Live Chat before its release.

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Q: Can you add Free to Play STYLED servers? Meaning, don't allow F2P users to play 2007 scape, but create servers that emulate F2P because many people preferred Pking in non member servers with just Rune.

A: Mod Mark: That's a nice idea. We could do something like that yes.

15-Mar-2013 14:59:35

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